Paper 8 — HTS-Based Evidence Sealing in the AGI Era: Preserving Output History, Human Discretion, and Evidentiary References

This working paper introduces HTS-Based Evidence Sealing as a non-executable history-reference and time-based sealing reference framework for the AGI era. Building on Papers 1 through 7 of the AGI Structural Alignment Series, this paper addresses how AI+AGI output histories, human review records, human-discretion records, role-based responsibility references, and multi-layer verification records may correspond to later evidentiary references and time-based sealing references. In this paper, HTS is not defined as a system that automatically confirms evidence, creates legal effect, performs validation, generates states, or assigns responsibility. Rather, HTS is positioned as a time-based sealing reference layer…